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JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 2 (Ewa Pobłocka)

The salient qualities that I praised in Ewa Pobłocka’s recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 carry over to Book...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2023

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Oliver Schnyder)

This is a bold choice for Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder’s first foray into Bach on record. How do you like...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2023

‘Stained Glass’

The ‘second’ violin sonatas of Ravel and Prokofiev are unusual bedfellows on disc – Viktoria Mullova paired them early in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2023

Friedemann Eichhorn : 'Liebestod’

It’s been less than a year since Alpha released Fazıl Say’s thrilling and thought-provoking duo recital with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (2/23)....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023

Sergio Tiempo: Hommage

It is not every pianist who can pick up the phone and ask Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky or Nelson Freire...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023

‘Corellimania’

No prizes for guessing the focus of this multi-composer programme; and yes, this would hardly be the first programme to...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2023

A, I & N TCHEREPNIN Chamber Music

The Tcherepnin family is a musical dynasty that has given us several generations of composers. The music of the three...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2023

RAVEL; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios (Busch Trio)

The Busch Trio have been garnering glowing reviews in 19th-century repertoire. Now they show themselves equally at home in the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023

PURCELL Fantastias (John Holloway Ensemble)

There are many recordings of Purcell’s Fantazias to choose from: broken consort in London Baroque’s early account (EMI, 3/84 –...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023

PFITZNER; SMETANA Works for Piano Trio

The belated issue of recordings by the Wiener Schubert Trio, after Schubert (8/11) then Chausson, Debussy and Rachmaninov, continues with...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2023

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